Drawings by Eòghann MacColla, Two Ravens Press 2009.
ISBN 978-1-906120-47-4
“A unique, fully bilingual poetic dialogue between two poets who literally and figuratively inhabit two sides of a mountain pass. Every poem is alive with music and feeling: a singular richness adorns these fertile pages.” – Aonghas MacNeacail.
“You’ll find yourself wandering through these poems alive to fresh ideas like the narrator of the verbal tour de force that is ‘Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach’, ultimately responding to the vital miracle and sheer contingency of life’s own poetic dialogue with the words ‘tapadh leat’ = ‘thank you’. It’s a long time since these islands gave us such an accessible and life enriching collection.” – Kevin MacNeil.
 | Mark O. GoodwinMark O. Goodwin was born in Devon and moved to Skye in 1994. He is coauthor of the collection DÃ Thaobh a’ Bhealaich/The Two Sides of the Pass (Two Ravens Press, 2009). His poem ‘Skye’ was selected for the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems 2009 and he is represented in the anthology These Islands, We Sing (Polygon, 2011). In 2013 he was awarded special merit in the National Galleries of Scotland writing competition for the poem ‘After the Wave’. His poetry is often about place and how it is inhabited psychologically and physically; a journey to the end and edge of things – to the borderlands of history and the self. Five of his poems were chosen for the Canadian magazine Event 44.2, 2015. He has worked with documentary film students on Skye and the Isle of Raasay, exploring the links between politics and social history and landscape. |